Bronx Events: Crotona Community Cleanup This Saturday

(File photo by Jeanmarie Evelly)

This Saturday, August 13, the youth group at the Mary Mitchell Family and Youth Center and members of Community Board 6 are hosting a neighborhood cleanup event from 12 to 2 p.m., along Mapes Avenue outside the community center between 178th and 179th Streets. 

The group will be picking up trash, and staff from the city's Department of Sanitation are installing a new wastebasket on the street. If you're interested in joining the effort, call CB6 at (718) 579-6990.

Mess of the Moment: Devoe Terrace Street Trash

On East 190th Street, near Devoe Terrace in University Heights, lies this clutter of mangled Con Edison barricades, chunks of cement and a wood pallet.

Around the corner, on University Avenue, another unmanned Con Edison barricade surrounds a manhole cover.

We have a call in to Con Ed. We'll keep you updated.

Editor's Note: The "Mess of the Moment" is a periodic feature on the blog. If there is a mess you want highlighted or paid attention to, send photos with a location (or at least a location and a description) to bronxnewsnetwork@gmail.com, or just tell us about it in the comments section of this post.